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Dragonchain™, Originally Developed at Disney, Opens Limited Supply Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

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02 Oct, 2017, 16:50 GMT

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SEATTLE, October 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

  • Originally developed at Disney, Dragonchain ICO runs Oct. 2 - Nov. 2 
  • Advisory board formed and includes prominent cryptocurrency and tech innovators 
  • Multiple companies enter incubation program and start to design applications.   

Dragonchain, the blockchain platform originally developed at Disney, opens its public Initial Coin Offering (ICO) today, the one-year anniversary of Disney releasing it as open source. Running Oct. 2 - Nov. 2, the tokens issued during the ICO (Dragons) will provide access to Dragonchain platform services, project incubation, and professional services to support enterprises, start-ups, and entrepreneurs building applications on the platform.

     (Logo: http://mma.prnewswire.com/media/565909/Dragonchain_Logo.jpg )

"Our vision for Dragonchain is a secure and flexible blockchain platform paired with a crowd scaled incubator," said Joe Roets, Founder and CEO of Dragonchain, Inc. "The system is modeled to create feedback loops and accelerate blockchain projects and market success."

Dragonchain was originally developed at Disney's Seattle office between 2015 and 2016 under the name "Disney Private Blockchain Platform". The project launched as open-source by Disney on October 2, 2016, and is now maintained by the Dragonchain Foundation.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE----- 

The Dragonchain token sale is now live.

All humans are invited to participate.

Buy Dragons at https://dragonchain.com/tokensale today!

-----ADDRESS----- 

1DRA8KjFPZ62XdEGSmFEneRj8UqVVCAEnL

-----BEGIN SIGNATURE----- 

IMaJ1YlTnkUD2FA4ddmgYKkuijVdfloh6QIKrPYCRGKdTKBq6thUD5n7xNh1DO7xevpVBvumm9C6v/wFA3+0Low=

-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE----- 

Dragonchain Initial Coin Offering 

https://dragonchain.com/tokensale

Start: OCT 2, 2017 08:00 US/PDT (UTC-7)

Stop: NOV 2, 2017 23:59 US/PDT (UTC-7

Token supply: 433,494,437 Dragons

Ticker: DRGN

In addition, Dragonchain officially announces the formation of its Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance on future endeavors.

"Dragonchain's context-based approval ushers in a new era of inter-linked blockchain databases, multi-dimensional datastores that scale to customer requirements," said Jeff Garzik, co-founder at Bloq and Dragonchain Advisory Board member. "Joe and the Dragonchain team are bringing a unique solution to market - the latest in blockchain technology, combining ease of integration, cloud scalability and secure grounding in public blockchain networks."

Dragonchain Advisory Board members include:

Jeff Garzik, co-founder, Bloq 

A futurist, bitcoin entrepreneur and software engineer, Jeff is co- founder and CEO of Bloq, a code-for-hire service that delivers enterprise grade blockchain technology to leading companies worldwide.

Matthew Roszak, co-founder, Bloq and founding partner, Tally Capital 

Co-founder at Bloq and founding partner at Tally Capital, Matthew is an avid supporter and investor in the exciting technology frontier of blockchain.

Ed Fries, tech industry advisor and co-founder of the original Xbox 

Ed joined Microsoft in 1986, and as a VP, spent 10 years as one of the early developers of Excel and Word. He left the Office team to pursue his passion for interactive entertainment and created Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years he grew the team from 50 people to over 1200, published over 100 games, co-founded the Xbox Project, making Microsoft one of the leaders in the video game business.

Collin LaHay (Collin Crypto), Gambit founder 

Blockchain expert, Bitcoin angel investor, ICO advisor, founder at Gambit, entrepreneur, internet marketer and founder of CollinLaHay.com a search engine marketing business offering.

Tom Bush - former assistant director, FBI CJIS Division 

National security, homeland security and law enforcement subject matter expert with over 33 years in federal law enforcement and owner at Tom Bush Consulting.

Chris Boscolo - Founder, lifeID 

A specialist in cloud-computing, Amazon Web Services, network security, TCP/IP network protocols embedded systems and Linux kernel drivers, Chris has more than 20 years' experience building commercially successful products.

"With increased concerns around security and privacy, blockchain is a transformative technology," said Tom Bush, owner at Tom Bush Consulting and Dragonchain Advisory Board member. "Dragonchain is positioned to be a notable player in this sector."

For more information please see our recent announcement: Dragonchain™, Originally Developed at Disney, Announces October 2nd ICO to Bring the Power of Blockchain Technology to Business

About Dragonchain 

Dragonchain simplifies the integration of real business applications on a blockchain and provides features such as easy integration, protection of business data and operations, currency agnosticism, and multi-currency support. The company also provides professional services to build-out development and successful tokenization ecosystems with long term value utilizing an incubation model. Please visit and contact us at https://dragonchain.com/.

Media Contact: 

Tom Fry
Bright Bee PR
media@dragonchain.com
+44(0)208-8193170

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